Today we collected another 'van' from Melbourne to start another long drive north to Cairns via Brisbane. For the first few days we will be driving east along the coast of Victoria before turning North on the New South Wales border. (I am not clever enough to load a map for reference!) We drove out of Melbourne which seemed to take ages in the traffic and headed for Stratford (on Avon!). We passed through lots of small towns and villages and once again traffic became quite scarce by UK standards although the roads are far less straight than Western Australia! Only about 50km back from the coast are mountain resorts which are snow covered in winter and we detoured into the mountains to visit an old gold rush town - Walhalla - see bandstand in the pictures.
Unfortunately the good weather has deserted us and it has started to rain - by the time we arrived (in the dark) we could not park the motorhome by the river since we were told 'the whole of Australia was on flood watch!'
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